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Hutchins, Shaun D. – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this Professional Pathways for Teachers (PPfT) evaluation was to examine the measurement validity and reliability of PPfT appraisal data from the 2017-2018 school year in the Austin Independent School District. The PPfT appraisal is a multi-measure system that covers three areas: instructional practices (IP), professional growth and…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, School Districts, Teacher Evaluation
Sanders, Ben – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2018
The National Student Outcomes Survey (SOS) collects information about students who completed their vocational education and training (VET) in the previous calendar year. The gathered information on the surveyed VET students includes their reasons for training, employment outcomes, satisfaction with training, and further study outcomes. The survey…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Outcome Measures, Student Surveys, National Surveys
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Gill, Brian; Shoji, Megan; Coen, Thomas; Place, Kate – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2016
School districts and states across the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic Region and the country as a whole have been modifying their teacher evaluation systems to identify more effective and less effective teachers and provide better feedback to improve instructional practice. The new systems typically include components related to…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Test Bias, Test Content, School Districts
Gottfredson, Don M.; Snyder, Howard N. – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2005
This report is meant to help juvenile courts develop practical risk-screening instruments. Courts increasingly are using some method of risk classification to assist in assignment of youth to differential service/supervision programs. A comparison of commonly used or advocated risk classification methods may provide courts with guidance in…
Descriptors: Classification, Juvenile Justice, Test Validity, Juvenile Courts
Muraki, Eiji; Engelhard, George, Jr. – 1985
Recent developments in dichotomous factor analysis based on multidimensional item response models (Bock and Aitkin, 1981; Muthen, 1978) provide an effective method for exploring the dimensionality of questionnaire items. Implemented in the TESTFACT program, this "full information" item factor analysis accounts not only for the pairwise…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Factor Analysis, Item Analysis